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Show UPTIVES SURRENDERED ON PAYMENT OF RANSOM MONEY Cross the International Boundary in Safety at an Early Hour This Morning, Report Says. Prompt Steps Taken by Washington to Effect Men's Surrender; Car-ranza Car-ranza Given Warning. MARFA, Texas. A up. 19. Lieutenant H. Ci. Peterson, one of the two American aviators held by Mexican bandits for flf..-000 flf..-000 ransom, crossed the border to the. American side early this nioriiliigr.'sliorliy after Lieutenant Peterson crossed the border, Captain Matlack returned, bringing bring-ing with him Lieutenant Davis. They are expected to return to Marfa by airplane. The ransom money was taken across the border to the bandit rendezvous by Captain Matlack of tile Lighlh cavalry. Captain Matlack went a.lone. awaiting a signal Hashed from the mountains ly the bandits. Captain Matlack brought back with him one-half the. ransom money. lie said after Peterson had been released, Davis was brought forward by the bandits, and the two mounted Captain Matlack's horse. The bandits demanded the remainder of the ransom money, and Captain Matlack and Davis answered by riding rapidly away. LOSE WAY AFTER FORCED LANDING. The aviators landed on the A mnrienn side of the river, 1,1 nu tenant pptfi'Mm said. Upon their arrival at Canddurfa a week ai;o Sunday, their engine ik' c) -oped trouble and they -wore furred 1 n land, smashing their landing your and fuselage In dohiK so. The two aviators then tried to find, their way to the nearest army iMinp mid' became confused. They walked and swam down the Kio Grande during Monday, Lieutenant Peterson said, mid then hired Mexican burros after Pi'lm-son developed a fever. They had started for ( 'midi-la rin when an armed ilex lean overtook them and made them prisoners. They v.crc unarmed. un-armed. They were overtaken by a band of armed bandits, 1 aeutenant. Peterson Huid, and a crowd of people from a Utile tm n. They cont Inued on their forced jotirnev until Friday niht, when t lie band it's forced the- aviatois to wrltn mi'SNiifs demanding de-manding ransom and telling- of the death threat. The leader of the bandits, ho said, bad worked on a railroad In Kansas and lost a hand and a font In an accident there. Peterson immediately sent a message lo his father at Hutchinson, Minn., saying, "Feeling fine. 1 lad wonderf ul experience." experi-ence." I.mvla also sent a similar message in his parents at Strathmore, Cal. WASHINGTON PROMPT TO EFFECT RELEASE OF BANDIT VICTIMS WASHINGTON, Any. 18. Official here (ouiglit, after a day during which (he IMexican situalitm was (o Iho fore, awaited news of Hie release ly Mexican Mexi-can ba rul its of Lieuf cnants Paul II. Davis and HuroM !. Peterson, American Ameri-can army aviators. J'rompL incisures to obtain t he re leube of the aviators, who were captured cap-tured by the bandits near ( andelaria, TcxaH, and for whom $Jo,'K)tj random haa been demanded, was expected by state department officials, following the forwarding f instructions lo the American embassy at Mexico City to call upon the -Mexican p,ove rn men I for ' ' im media te adequal o action." Only an hour or two after the, de part nient, issued its wtat em cut, jn t Inj case of the two aviators, it made public pub-lic dispatches telling of the kidnaping of Dr. A. Gocnaa, an American eiti zen and a native of 1'orlo b'ieo, l,y Mexican bandits under . Valentine Reyes. The dispatches said that L'r. Goenu was beinjj held for ransom in Mie. vicinity vi-cinity of -M exico Ci I y. A letter received by ,ni American in Mexico Ci t y from I h u doc I or, under date of duly L'U, said Ilia! the rebels threatened to hill him unless a ransom of ne vera 1 t housand pesos Yt a pa id by August lo. Thr; department sairl it had no further information except Unit the Mexican foreign office aJ vised. I )io ' (Continued on Pac 2, Column I aitc-rnative, caused the already strained I rekt M-ris betw een the two countries to i bo regarded here today as having reached ja I" rdermg ori the acuf-. l ; ! al I Was,h ingiun, as well as the entire d.p'o-j d.p'o-j mai:c corps, was awaiting developments with keen interest, as the serious p'Uen-I p'Uen-I t:ai:t:es. should harm befall the iliers, j generally were recognized. QUICK STEPS OlST " upon mm. (Continued From Page One.) American embassy at Mexico City yesterday yes-terday that troops had been sent to rescue the American. Two other attacks on American life and property in Mexico came to light during the day. One "was an attack on a truck train of tho Alvarado Mining and Milling company in the vicinity of Jimenez, with slight injuries to Leslie Webb, and American employee of the company. Last Thursday bandits raided the Tuxpam office of the Pcnn- ; sylvania-Mexico Fuel company, an American corporation, and made away with 25,000 pesos. State department officials said the ransom demanded would be paid as soon as Information could be had as to where and to whom tho money was to be delivered. de-livered. It has not been decided whether the United States would furnish the sum and charge it against the Carranza government gov-ernment or call upon the Mexican government gov-ernment to pay it direct. TEXT OF DISPATCH SENT TO MEXICO. The department's announcement said: "The department of state has telo-graphed telo-graphed Instructions to the American embassy em-bassy at Mexico City to immediately call upon the Mexican government for quick action to affect tho release of Lieutenants Lieuten-ants Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson Peter-son of the United States army air service, ser-vice, captured by Mexican bandits near Candelaria, Texas, while patrolling the border and threatened with death on failure to pay $15,000 ransom. "The instructions pointed out the seriousness se-riousness with which the United States government views this situation and called for Immediate adequate action. The department also directed the American Ameri-can consul at Juarez. Mexico, to take all possible steps with tho Mexican authorities authori-ties there to secure release and protection of the officers." The attention of the department was called to the Davis case late last night by Representative Barbour of California, and telegraphic instructions were rushed to the embassy and the consulate. The officer's father, Dr. Warren B. Davis, of Strathmore, Cal., was advised of the steps taken in behalf of his son. The governor of Minnesota telegraphed to the department today regarding the two lieutenants lieu-tenants and was advised of the steps which the depart ment had taken. Peter-eon Peter-eon is a son of S. C. Peterson of Hutchinson, Hutch-inson, Minn. EARLY NEWS OF THE DETENTION OF YANKEES. It was learned today that the first intimation in-timation that the officers Lieutenants Paul H. Davis and Harold Peterson-were Peterson-were missing readied Washington the middle of last woek in dispatches from the border, which said a peon had reported re-ported that two aviators were in a canyon can-yon south of the border. It was understood under-stood that the aviators had been compelled com-pelled to land in Mexico -and were in trouble. American army officials on the border were then reported to be planning plan-ning to send relief to the two men and were given to understand that the Mexican Mexi-can authorities had no objection. The next word received was on Saturday, when the capture of the two men by bandits ban-dits was reported. Secretary Baker told a senate committee commit-tee today that there was some uncertainty uncer-tainty as to whether tho aviators had landed by mistake in Mexico, or, as they claimed, had landed on the American side and were captured. He added, however, how-ever, that he did not care to go into any more details than those already published. pub-lished. "But It is just another evidence of the inability of the Mexican government to preserve order in that country, Isn't it?" asked Senator Sutherland, Republican, of West Virginia. CAPTURED IN WILD DISTRICT OF MEXICO. The secretary replied that the men had been captured in the Big Bend country which, he explained, was "wild and sparsely settled." Mr. Baker appeared before the commit com-mit teo to testify regarding the war department's de-partment's plans for a permanent military mili-tary policy for the country. Official reports from Major-General Dickman, commander of the southern department, de-partment, concerning the detention of the aviators, were received today at the war department, but Secretary Baker refused to make them public, saying the stato department had entire supervision over the matter. As soon as ho reached his office this morning Mr. Baker went into conference with several bureau chiefs, but there was no Information that the Mexican situation situa-tion was discussed. The capture and detention of the army fliers is considered by officials here to be essentially different from other cases of American citizens who have been held for ransom. Members of the military forces of tho country, especially when In uniform, are direct representatives of their government, it was said, and any injury or affront to them is regarded as a breach of international law. Situation Now Acute. Coming close on the heels of the state department's virtual ultimatum to the Carranza government that unless st ops were taken to stop murder of American citizens and for protection of their rights, a radical change in the attitude of this government to wan! Mexico would be adopted, news that two American army aviators were being held by Mexican bandits ban-dits for $15,000 ransom, with death as the |